A Thing That Has Been Going On With Me Lately: or, Why I Will Regretfully Not Be Attending ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social: A few weeks ago, I posted this - & was immediately told by @gwenynen.bsky.social & several others to get off Bluesky & get to the GP pronto. Pretty smart of them, because (1/?)

English and Arts and Creative Technologies are delighted to welcome applications to our new MA in Creative Writing. To find out more about how to develop your creative writing skills whilst analysing the critical histories that influence them, visit our website or be in touch.

Look! It's finally happening, I'm so excited! Please share with your friends, people who assign books, and pets.

I've just seen that the link to the IPSEA 'Write to your MP' template letter is broken. Here's a working link. www.ipsea.org.uk/write-to-you...

Hello, all. I'm writing this thread to ask for your help. I know it's a bit of a downer at the start of a sunny spring weekend, but please read to the end. (1/?)

Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.

Look at the great poster the U of Connecticut made for me--incorporating the witty trade card of Elizabeth Griffin, mid #18thc London map & printseller. Immodest of me--but I believe my talk (3/26, 4pm) will be live-streamed, so pls let me know, farflung Bsky pals, if you'd like more info'.

I’m chuffed to be back on the @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social airwaves tomorrow evening, celebrating the 300th anniversary of Dr Charles Burney (the music one, not the book thief one) AND the 250th anniversary of his General History of Music - a milestone in musicology. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

No Doubt ‘Don’t Speak’ busts right through the must-be-more-than-one-song rule.

We were interviewed as part of the research for the Brexit Couples project, housed at Bristol, report now out: I burst into tears during the interview and apparently that happened fairly often - brexitcouples.ac.uk/publications...

Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online project @montaguletters.bsky.social has announced their next round of paid internships, focusing letters from Montagu to Classicist and poet Elizabeth Carter - emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/inte... @bsecs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @oxford18thc.bsky.social

📢 Call for applicants! We are delighted to announce the SIMS-CSMC Fellowship, set up with our colleagues @sims-mss.bsky.social. It supports innovative approaches to the study of manuscripts and includes time at SIMS in Philadelphia and at CSMC in Hamburg. Apply by 1 May 2026! More info:

“To all influencers and other tax exiles in Dubai, the tax authorities wish you a safe return to France”

This is the most AI thing that could possibly have happened. AI+. No notes.

Happy publication day to 'Hilary Mantel', published by @livunipress.bsky.social Thrilled to have been able to undertake this project with the support of the excellent LUP team. It's currently 20% off on the LUP website too! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Goodwin lol more like Matt Badloss

Best thing I've read on the SEND reforms: personal, really lucid, great on the policy context jimlauder.substack.com/p/the-white-...

6 days left to get your free download of Disability & the Gothic.

Adapt The Castle Of Otranto, you cowards

iambic tetrameter ass stick

Superb guide to the govt's SEND plans. Without Special Needs jungle, the conversation would be sorely lacking. Must-read!

Christ, this is awful

Regardless of the White Paper’s merits, today may be a difficult day for SEN parents in your life. Please be nice to them. It is hard to see these conversations carried out mostly by politicians/media with zero idea of the agony, humiliation & expense involved in fighting for your child’s rights.

Chris Harding kindly hosted a conversation with Rosina Buckland and I on BBC 3 about the Samurai exhibition at the British Museum. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

OH MY GOD

I’ve had an iPhone update and now it is genuinely impossible to write anything on my phone without having it autocorrected, no matter how carefully I type, to complete gibberish. Slow hand clap, Apple. I guess this is one way to drive me back to a pay-as-you-go Nokia?

Reading With The Burneys won a prize!! I’m absolutely made up to have been awarded the Library History Essay Prize by @cilip.bsky.social, the Library & Information Association. Guess i’m not beating those ‘historian in literary scholar’s clothing’ allegations anytime soon…😃

First Gent: My lord, what news from Norfolk? Second Gent: The prince, the king's own brother, is detained At Aylsham. First Gent: Marry, it will *ail* the king Full sore if this be truth and not a *sham*. Second Gent: (beat) My lord, are we really doing this

Totally made to see my brilliant colleague & friend Juliana Mensah recognised as one of the 2026 @newwritingnorth.bsky.social Jerwood Fellows. Can’t think of a more deserving recipient - and can’t wait to read her new novel, follow-up to the amazing Castles From Cobwebs. Congrats to the others too!

In happier news: GALETTES.

With respect, I would like to know what such students would have had universities do instead, under that very specific set of unprecedented circumstances. Something that abided by the law, protected the vulnerable, and also fulfilled their consumer expectations. I’m listening.

This is emblematic of the consumer culture that fees have engendered. What the hell did the students expect? It was a ONCE IN A CENTURY PANDEMIC. There were LAWS against congregating in public. Staff worked themselves to the bone to get online delivery working. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Let’s. Resubscribe. To. The. MLA International Bibliography.

Could it BE any more cottage?

The Valentines content we all need

I'm very happy @abojournal.bsky.social's #DH section is up and running again! Thanks to @allisonmuri.bsky.social for reflecting on The Grub Street Project's 20th anniversary and to @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social for reviewing @books-borrowing.bsky.social!

I think GenAI could be great in the classroom if you want students’ responses to literally everything to be “oh, ok.”

You're not producing a novel with AI. You're using an algorithm powered by other people's stolen novels to lie and pretend you're a writer. Being a writer requires WRITING, you pathetic fucks.

You guuuuyyyys, Reading With The Burneys got reviewed in Women’s Writing! “A fascinating micro-history in the print ecology of the long Romanticism, reconstructed with critical acuity…a useful lens through which to reinterpret an entire cultural landscape…” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Has anyone had a bout of Covid recently that left them very short of breath? I’m slightly scared bc such a noticeable difference even though it doesn’t seem like a gp-worthy thing (I’m not unable to breathe, just out of puff after climbing stairs which is *not* my usual MO).

In case you didn't catch it in last Saturday's print edition, my review of Irish Romanticism: A Literary History by Claire Connolly is now up on the Irish Times website. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Having carefully set up an out of office and forward for my Leeds email account, it looks as if the University has simply shut it down. Can friends and followers please get the word out that I am still contactable for history-related messages and queries at jessicameyer1 @ gmail.com. Thank you!

Hearing it might be Ben Swain.

I’ve had the unenviable task of writing some reviews lately for which it was hard to find words both true and kind, so it was a DELIGHT to be invited to review @books-borrowing.bsky.social for @abojournal.bsky.social. Review free to read here: digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...

(from www.instagram.com/nobodyssweet...)

Help, I have tumbled down an early-modern-country-dance-tune rabbithole. Tag urself - I'm My Lady Winwood's Maggot.

Britain feels more and more like a middle aged man who walked out on his family because he wanted to enjoy the company of multiple young ladies and now tries to convince himself he has won because he gets access to the children once a fortnight and three Only Fans subscriptions.

Added it to Chrome and can verify it works, thank god

So not that I’ve been thinking about this all day, but, has anyone leaked that First Dance video yet?